Key: C major
Verse 1
F
Cm
F
Fm
Dear Dad, don't get mad,
What I'm asking for
Is by the next semester
Bb
Fm
Can I get another car ?
This one here is sick'ning
Bb
On a wide dual road.
Cm
C
I might as well be walking
Cm
Eb
Cm
As to drive this old Ford.
Eb
Al
Verse 2
Fm
most everytime I try
To go and pass a truck,
If I ain't goin' down hill,
Bb
Cm
Dad, I'm, out of luck.
Fm
And even if I get by,
Bb
It's still a rugged risk,
Cm
The way this old Ford
Interlude 1
Keep a hitting and a miss.
Fm
F
Fm
F
Fm
F
Bb
Cm
F
Fm
Bb
Fm
Cm
C
Cm
Verse 3
Fm
Last week when I was driving
On my way to school,
I almost got a ticket
Bb
Cm
'Bout a freeway traffic rule.
Bb
Fm
It's now a violation
Bb
Driving under forty-five,
Cm
And And if I push to fifty,
Eb
This here Ford will nosedive.
Verse 4
Fm
Dad, I'm in great danger
Out here trying to drive.
The way this Ford wiggles
F
Bb
When I'm ap proaching forty-five
Fm
I have to nurse it along
Bb
Like a little stubborn pup,
Cm
And cars whizzing by me,
Eb
Cm
Dad, look like I'm backing up.
Interlude 2
F
Fm
Bb
F
Fm
Bb
Cm
F
Bb
Cm
Fm
Cm
F
Verse 5
Fm
She just don't have the appetite
For gas somehow,
And Dad, I got four carburetors
Bb
Hooked up on it now.
Fm
I tried to hook another
Bb
To see if I'd do a little good,
F
But ain't no place to put it
C
Eb
F
'Less I perforate the hood.
Eb
Well
Verse 6
F
Fm
Dad, send the money,
See what I can see,
Try to find a Cadillac,
Bb
C
A Sixty-two or or three.
Bb
Fm
Just something that won't worry us
Bb
To keep it on the road.
C
Sincerely, your beloved son,
F
Henry Junior Ford
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